Zip yer fly.
 

http://www.4321zip.com/images/pics/Zip_pink.jpg

In what may prove to be the best deterrent to airline terror yet, Air Canada launched air Zip in a wide range of colors
that no self-respecting fundamentalist would be caught dead on.

Take off, eh?

IIRC, Southwest has the Shamu planes...thank God I didn't have to fly on one of those.

*thinks about it* The flying whale...*rofl*

I don't think I'll ever fly anything with a Zip branding.

"Captain, there's this strange clicking sound coming from the engines..."

Apparantly, the white dots show the trajectory of the average Zip flight. Even more apparantly, they're still under construction, since the 'wide range of colors' pictures were photoshopped.

In actually looking at the site and who they are, they seem like Canada's equivalent to Southwest. The idea as a whole sounds good...and may benefit travellers (we'll keep with Canadian spelling here :) ) in Western Canada.

Do the planes glow in the dark though? ;)

Yeah, you'd think they'd maybe use different cloud backdrops, or at least get rid of that hazy vignette around the plane..

Ryanair in Ireland
 

have some pretty odd colour schemes

including the smiley plane...http://www.ryanair.ie/planes/Smileb.jpg

"Shamu" paint scheme
 

There was a USAF KC-10 paint scheme they used for a while that crews called the "Shamu" scheme

http://m2reviews.cnsi.net/scotts/modern/kc10bt.jpg

makes sense?
 

That's a camo scheme seen often in nature, for obvious reasons. SO the USAF comes out with the same scheme for airplanes, for the same reasons. I remember when they were doing this, and it seemed like a good idea.

Anyone know why they stopped? Other than they might not have wanted their fierce airplanes to look so *cute*?

Re: makes sense?
 

If I remember right, it worked well in SOME situations (Over ocean and Europe), but horridly in others, particularly in places with a sand colored background. With the threat of fighting an air war in Europe all but gone, it doesn't make much sense. They've gone to Ghost Gray if I remember right

lousy late catchup on all these old posts ....

I can't help but think of a giant flying bottle of Pepto Bismol as I look at the first image of the plane.


And actually, while we're on the subject of camoflage that was rendered obsolete, I just wanted to bring up a link to the razzle-dazzle camo used on ships in World War I.

http://gotouring.com/razzledazzle/dazzle.html

I just love the idea of bright and gaudy warships steaming along, looking like something out a Picasso painting. And the fact that the camo actually worked -- at least until sonar and radar nipped it in the bud -- makes the artist in me smile.

sapienza

Excellent link, sapienza! The SS Melita is one of those rare photos that connect past and present. Looking at old high-contrast black-and-white photos makes even recent history seem so remote, then a picture like this comes along, looking like a modern ship that just happened to be photographed with black-and-white film.

The other major instance of this was the turn-of-the-century (19th century, that is) Russian photographer who took color pictures. I thought it was discussed here, but I can't find any links.

While I'm throwing up links, here's the guy you were talking about.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Prokudin-Gorskii. I was just looking at his photos a couple days ago, actually.

sapienza

Those ships could be an IoTD.

Whoa @ the French cruiser!

Why did they do thay crazy camo on the ships? What was the thinking behind it?